Thursday, August 9, 2012

An experiment of healing my shoulder and the lessons

As some of you may know, I pulled my shoulder muscle some months ago because I started a very intense astanga practice. Back then it taught me to slow down and accept the pace that was right for me, plus rest! I slowed down but still had discomforts during the practice, the biggest discomfort mental. I was still pacing myself not accepting the state I was in. A month ago I finally accepted where I was and did my practice with love and only practiced max 3 times a week. I vizualised myself doing the postures right and I improved more than ever.

Since sunday, after a very stressfull week, I suddenly started to have very intense pain again and felt like the muscle could not relax. I am taking this as an important lesson and as a opportunity to experiment with new techniques of healing. I will make a list below of techniques I am trying and I will make a weekly update:

- eating all clean (high carb, raw, no spice)
- Getting sufficient sleep, water, sun
- only sitting on the flor, spine straight, no sofa or chairs if possible
- watching my posture while walking and standing
- only walking barefoot
- be in nature everyday and put contact with the earth on my shoulder
- be kind to myself and everything around me emotionally
- before sleep, sending healing energy and imagining a healthy strong shoulder



If you have any to add, please let me know!
I will try and keep my 3 day of astanga practice and see how that goes. I have a good feeling about it and I am interested in seeing the progress :)

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

A sneakpeak at my summer!


I'll show you guys some of the lovely pictures of fruit I have from the summer. Denmark is such a wonderful place in the summer and we have the most wonderful berries, my favourite is cherry. Tomorrow I am going wild cherry picking ! That will test my monkey climbing skills...
Enjoy the pictures! More recipes and exstensive background story coming soon!

Tomatoes from my grandparents garden
Melonheaven
mmh nanamango icecream
The king of fruit

Sunday, July 22, 2012

Raw Vegan Creampea lasagne

Mmmh, this lasagne is the king of my recipes! It wins every time. I have even made it for my meateating grandparents and they loved it! It is really simple.



What you need is following for 1 person:

lasagneplate:
1-2 squash
2 lime
3 springonion

Cut squash thinly with a mandolin and put in limejuice with springonion in the fridge for some hours.

Creampea:
1 small avocado, 100 gr peas fresh, 2-3 dates

Blend all together in the foodprocessor. I like it when it is a little crunchy, not to smooth.

Then you start with a layer of squash, then the cream, sliced organic tomato and fresh dill and  build it up as far as you wish. Enjoy! Simple, raw, healthy, delicious. Be sure to make it with love.

Monday, July 16, 2012

Freshfoodfestival in Denmark

For the past four days I have been attending the amazing 811 freshfoodfestival located in Denmark. I have meet a 100 other, likeminded, loving, compassionate people. I have eaten the best ripe, organic fruits and greens and heard amazing lectures from Douglas Graham, Rozalind Graham and Tony Wright.
But this overall experience is simply something beyond words. I have never exerpienced so much love, compassion and light in one place. And I had a feeling that only at that point I really knew what a family feels like. All the people there are my family. There were no judgement, no anger, resentment or hatred whatsoever. I come home, stronger, more loving, happier and with relationships for life.

I will not tell so much about what happened and try to explain my experience. Because I know it is simply impossible. Words do not match what I feel inside. To imagine an ideal world, would be how the past days were, the interaction with people, the love, the atmosphere. I wish for everyone to experience this

I have such great love and gratefullness for the people who made this happen. I come home with a stronger heart. Thank you.

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Emotions and 811

Choosing a 811 diet, is a very clean diet. You choose to strip yourself naked of all substances, stimulants and junk that you have ever put in your body. All this junk has overloaded your body with toxins, to an extent were all nerveenergy has been used to clean and digest this "food". In a state like that, not much nerveenergy is left to digest emotions.
So once people start eating a clean diet, all this nerveenergy is suddenly free to be used dealing with certain emotions and feeling parts of yourself, that might have been hidden for years. This process is not always easy. In fact so hard, that I would think it is a big reason, apart from undereating, that people fall of the wagon.
Even though you eat clean, there are still ways to avoid facing theese emtions. Such as overexersizing, undereating or other distructive behaviours or relationships. You might find that this vanish naturally with your changes or you might have to take action yourself.

You are stripped naked and forced to face a lot of emotins, hidden for years, emotions you had no idea were there. As hard as it may sound - I find it a beautifull process. It is the process of digging into the corebeing of yourself. Think of it as this: Modern man is like an onion - equipped with a inner true being of love and light which is the core, and this core is covered with layers of emotions, fears, traumas, that prevents you to shine and be. When theese layers start to be peeled, it can be tough and it can tear your eyes up.















So as you start eating this way, you start to peel the layers, one by one.
Have you ever experienced being fearfull or anxious and feeling like you have several voices in your head? Fear and anxiety will try and fool into thinking, what they say is you, but seen up close, you can actually dinstinguish between thoose feelings and your true being. The methods described underneath may help.


In times were fears and anxiety feels strong, try the following:
  • Breath deeply and slowly. Focus on the pauses between inhalition and exhilation. Sit in a place where you do not get disturbed and focus on this with closed eyes. Focus on the area of yuor heart and imagine a bright light shinning, getting stronger and stronger 
  • Talk to the fears. Tell them that you truly love them, for what they really are - which is not the fears. Imagine the childversion of you and tell him/her that everything is okay.
  • Let the feelings be. The more you try to ignore, supress or fight them, the stronger they get and they will never transform in that way. Simply focus all your attention in feeling the emotion and accept it. It might feel very intense in some seconds, maybe minutes, but then it will start to transform.


Theese layers has saved you in times, that were simply to painfull or to hard to survive if fully faced, so give them love, tell them that you really appreciate the times they have protected and helped you, but they can be free now. The layers might mistakenly think that they need to be with you, in order to survive or be something, but the layers are actually also just love and light in a transformed form and they want to be set free also. It is very important to remember that this IS NOT a battle against fears. It is NOT a war. You will never be free if you try to fight. Simple give it love, acceptance and the fears, the layers will transform. They will transform into love nad light and empower your true being. The fears and anxiety is not an evil force. I picture them as little children, really afraid, they think the only way to survive is by telling you all the fears and making you act according to them. But all the actually need is just love and then they will be set free. 

NB! Off course it is vital that you eat enough carbs during processes like theese, since being undercarbed can lead you through a rollercoaster of emotions too. This is more related to lack of glucose in your brain and not a peeling of layers.

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Detox, healing... Why can't I just be superhuman in one day??

Okay guys, I would like to give my view on something, I find very important, but I see being neglected so often.
Most people have the impression that if you go 811, you will be super lean, super fit and almost superhuman within a week! People do not want that detoxcrap, we live in a resultbased society and people want results! Fewest people realize that the path is JUST as important as the goal.

Healing can involve many things. When eating a high meat, high fat and protein diet, with the occasional alcohol, maybe drugs, lack of sleep and sun, we poison our body to an immense extent. And eating that way, treating the world and body with such hatred, you also put a lot of hatred in yourself. When you start healing, it can get "ugly". You can gain weight, loose weight, become tired, weak etc. Some people, like me, need a whole of rest all of a sudden.

But wait... Am I not supposed to get super fit and energetic on this lifestyle? The answer is yes. Just remember this: Your body is loving you, it does everything to save you and healing is part of that. For me, actually, it is such a wonder that people can actually survive on such crappy diets and lifestyles. The body does everything for you. You need to trust that it heals in the way that is the best for you. You can choose to agree and treat it with love, or fight it and prolong the healing.
The mental state, is just as important as what food we put in our bodies, if we hate or bodies and try to fight against it, we fill it with mental toxins.

I find healing so beautifull. It is like seeing the creation of something new and beautifull. Your body throws out the old trash and your inner core, your real, clean, loving being starts to shine through. It is such a beautifull process, every single step of it.


This diet can not only lead to physical healing, but also a mental healing, which can be even more important. Let it happen, fill it with love all the way and trust that you are on the right path. It is time to transform fear, hatred, anger, violence and pain into love and light. Be part of this and world, more beautifull than ever will start to appear to you :)

Dance like nobody's watching; love like you've never been hurt. Sing like nobody's listening; live like it's heaven on earth.

Saturday, June 16, 2012

if you eat low fat cooked vegan...

This blogpost is for you :) Also for you who wants to transition, even though I believe going cold turkey is the most efficient way.
I have now, for around 2 weeks been eating low fat cooked vegan and it has helped in the sense of balancing my body more, compaired to when I went on and off 811. I know it is more of a mental issue for me, as described in my former post. But there is absolutely no doubt that fruit is the best. I miss it, I miss the bliss and connection it gives me! So for you guys who can do this and are ready, keep fruiting up!!

I have felt on my body which cooked foods that are less harmfull than others. If you plan on eating low fat vegan, then there are some things I would suggest you to avoid:

- gluten
- refined sugar
- processed foods such as for instande ketchup
- to much salt
- oil

If you have a minor addiction to certain bad foods, try and make a better version. I am a huge ketchup addict, so I started to make my own homemade ketchup. It tastes even better! And no bad stuff in it. A recipe will come up :)
Instead of gluten you have many options:

- rice
- potato
- any glutenfree product (though I would really carefully look at the ingredients list)
- quinoa
- buckwheat
- amaranth

The last three are so called pseudograins. I, myself, also try to eat a lowgrain diet, since grains react slightly acidic in the body. And i can clearly feel how my body does not approve to much of them. You can also find glutenfree pasta that is made from only buckwheat.

Off course also eat as many fruits and greens as you can! I only eat fruits for breakfest because I find it is the best way to start the day.

I hope this might help some :) I will give more detailed posts later on. I have a lot of things going on in my life atm!!

quinoa salad!
Lots of love